Mental health can have low comparative reimbursement for the providers (although it's really not too bad), but it's one of the easier specialties to bill for. I am employed full time by one clinic, and the specialties I bill for are:
- Chiropractic (easy once you know all the rules)
- Acupuncture (a bit harder, more rules than chiropractic)
- Physical Therapy (harder now that functional limitation reporting is required, lots of mutually exclusive procedure rules)
- Internal medicine (usually not hard but once in a while a real conundrum)
- Psychotherapy (easy)
- State Medical Home program (awful, it took a software patch and 6 months to get this billed properly)
- Cardiology assessments (tricky due to diagnosis requirements for Medicare)
Mental health billing is a good specialty to get some experience in. It's not likely to overwhelm you with technicalities. I get paid the same amount per hour regardless of what happens, so I would highly recommend charging a flat hourly or per claim fee. That way what you make isn't directly tied to how much or how little the provider makes.
only one specialty I won't touch is chiropractic. No amount of money will get me to touch that specialty.
Curious to know why? There are so many potential reasons why someone would not go near it.